Cardamine.] ill. ceucifeeae. 37 



Var. copymbosa. Smaller, suberect or prostrate. Leaflets in 1 or 2 pairs, or reduced to 

 a terminal leaflet. Flowers in few-flowered corymbs or .solitary, pedicels short. — Hook, f., Handbk. 

 12; sp. Hook, f., Fl. Antaro. i. 6; Hook., lo. PI. t. 686. SOUTH Island, STEWART Island, 

 ANTARCTIC Islands, &c. Chiefly in the mountains. 



Var. subcarnosa, Hook, f., PI. Antarc. i. 5. Leaflets in 3-6 pairs, narrow, rather fleshy. 

 Flowers larger. Sepals broader. Pods slender. Styles long or short. SOUTH Island : In moun- 

 tain districts. AUCKLAND, CAMPBELL, and MACQUARIE Islands. 



Var. uniflora, Hook, f., Handbk. Small. Leaves reduced to a single pinnule. Flowers on 

 slender 1-flowered scapes ; sometimes Jin. in diameter. NORTH and SOUTH Islands ; STEWART 

 Island. Often littoral, but most frequent in mountain districts. 



One of the most frequent plants, the varieties being largely dependent upon situation. 



2. C. depressa, Hook, f., Fl. Antarc. i. Q, t. 3 and 4. Perennial, 

 glabrous or pilose, stemless. Leaves rosulate, lin.— 2in. long, spafhulate or 

 ovate-spatliulate, rounded at the apex or retuse. Flowers on slender 1-flowered 

 scapes, \m.. long or more, crowded ; rarely on short few-flowered leafy scapes. 

 Pods rather stout, erect ; style short, stout. — Handbk. 12. 



Var, depressa, Handbk. Glabrous or pilose, larger. Leaves usually lobulate. — C. depressa' 

 Hook, f., Fl. Antaro. t. 3 and 4b. 



Var. stellata, Handbk. Glabrous or pilose. Leaves quite entire or obscurely crenate. 

 — C. stellata, Hook, f., Fl. Antarc. t. 4a. 



SOUTH Island : Var. depressa : Marlborough : Mount Mouatt, 4,000£t., T. E. Lake Ten- 

 nyson and Wairau Mountains, Nelson, Travers. Hopkins River and Lake Ohau, Canterbury, 

 Haast. Lake district, Otago, Hector and Siichanan. Both forms in the AUCKLANi) and CAMP- 

 BELL Islands, ascending to nearly 2,000ft. Hooker f. ; T. K. 



The short stout erect pods with their very short styles best distinguish this from all forms 

 of C, hirsuta. 



3. C. bilobata, ?i. s. Rootstock rather stout. Leaves all radical, on 

 slender petioles lin.— J.in. long, glabrous ; blade iin.— lin. long, oblong or obo- 

 vate, entire or with 1 or 2 pairs of lateral lobes at the base. Scapes very 

 slender, 5in.— lOin. high, naked, simple or with a single short branch. Flowers 

 few, on slender pedicels iin.— liu. long or more, large. Stamens tetradynamous. 

 Pedicels capillary, spreading in fruit. Pods fin.— lin. long, narrow, longer or 

 shorter than the pedicels ; style very slender. 



SOUTH Island : Kurow and Naseby, Mount Ida Range, Hector Mountains, Otago. 2,000tt. 

 to 3,000ft. Petrie ! 



A much larger plant than C. depressa, with more slender pods and spreading pedicels. The 

 flowers almost equal those of C. prafensis, L. 



4. C. stylosa, DC, Syst. Veg. ii. 24. A rather stout glahrous herb, 

 suberect or decumbent, 1ft.— 3ft. high ; branches leafy at the base. Leaves 

 3in.— 5in. long, oblong-lanceolate or spathulate, sinuate-toothed, entire or lobed 

 or pinnatifid at the base ; the lower on long petioles, the upper sessile, auri- 

 culate or sagittate. Racemes elongated, 1ft.— 2ft. long or more. Flowers small. 

 Pedicels short, stout. Pods distant, spreading, lin.-l^in. long; style stout, 

 valves convex. — Hook, f., Handbk. 12, Fl. Tasm. i. 18; Benth., Fl. Austr. i. 68. 

 C. divaricata, Hook, f., Fl. N..Z. i. 13. Arabis gigantea, Hook., Ic. PI. t. 259. 

 Sisymbrium divaricatum, Banks and Sol. MSS. 



NORTH Island: Not unfrequent in the Auckland District and outlying islands. KER- 

 MADEO Islands, Gheeseman. SOUTH Island : Marlborough: Picton, J. Butland ! Mount Stokes, 

 J. McMahon.l Queen Charlotte Sound, Banks and Solander I 



Easily distinguished from all other species by the coarse foliage and elongated racemes. 



